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Les Miserables

By: Victor Hugo
Narrated by: Bill Homewood
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From the title announcement surrounded by thrilling music, you will be captured and held fast through this long, heartbreaking, beautiful audiobook. Prisoners, priests, prostitutes, revolutionaries, and romantics, from Jean Valjean to Javert, Bill Homewood is everyone at once. His ability to slip between characters at high speeds is astonishing. Women, men, children, old, and young, Homewood is utterly convincing. His accents and vocal rasps or purrs fit the period, the person, and the place. Homewood’s performance makes this story of inner goodness and heroism mesmerizing. Musical accompaniment at appropriate moments enhances the mood.

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Les Miserables is set in Paris after the French Revolution. In the sewers and back streets we encounter "the wolf-like tread of crime," and assassination for a few sous is all in a day's work. We weep with the unlucky and heartbroken Fantine, and exult with the heroic revolutionaries of the barricades; but above all we thrill to the steadfast courage and nobility of soul of ex-convict Jean Valjean, always in danger from the relentless pursuit of the diabolical Inspector Javert.

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Awesome!!!

It takes me back to my childhood listening to it on a winter's evening. Great memories

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Very good abridged version

This is a very well narrated version of Les Miserables. It’s abridged and cuts out so much of the tedium of the full version.

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Excellent Abridgement

This is an excellent Abridgement of Les Miserables, capturing the beauty (and heartbreak) of this wonderful book in a brief package. A wonderful introduction and an enticement on to the whole book.

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